Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strengthen its civilian staff, the Army announced it was setting up fellowships that will enable up to 40 Army career employees to take off six months to a year at full pay to engage in research studies likely to bear on Army problems. ¶ The Florida state department of education took a cautious step toward the inclusion of instruction in "spiritual values" in the public schools. State Superintendent Thomas D. Bailey circulated to school districts a program drawn up at the state's request by unofficial representatives of major religious groups. The program emphasizes five "moral and spiritual cornerstones...
...with "Distance Measuring Equipment" (DME), is the present civilian-guidance system. The Civil Aeronautics Administration has installed 480 of its ground stations, and will install 82 more during the current fiscal year at a cost of $86,000 a station. The stations tell a properly equipped airplane its direction and distance...
...Force and Navy prefer it chiefly because its ground stations are much smaller and work better from a ship or a cluttered land site. The military have installed their TACAN stations independently of the CAA. Twenty of them are already functioning, and 181 more are being set up. Chief civilian objection to TACAN is that it is new, untried and will force non-military aircraft to install costly new equipment...
...civilian engineer on Wake Island, I had a ringside seat from which to observe a demonstration of basic guts by a group of U.S. marines fresh out of boot camp. Sergeant McKeon may have shown poor judgment, but that's not sufficient reason for busting an obviously dedicated man out of the Corps with a bad-conduct discharge...
...been used on battlefields before. The Research Institute's Colonel Joseph R. Shaeffer points out that the Japanese learned at Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the "only real good they could do" was in treating minor injuries. The system has also been applied in disasters by many a civilian doctor caught with more emergency cases than he could handle. "We don't talk of 'abandoning men,' " says Colonel Shaeffer. "But doctors should not be involved in three-hour operations; they should be out saving lives...